Private Collector Builds Apple Pop-Up Museum

David Greelish, Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society, has taken it upon himself to "tell the story of Apple.” Greelish partnered with Lonnie Mimms, a local computer collector, with a museum-quality exhibit dubbed the "Apple Pop-Up Museum." From the article: "...Mimms wanted to focus specifically on Apple—partly because of Steve Jobs' recent passing, but also because of Apple's 'overwhelming success and stardom.' And so the two teamed together to create the Apple Pop-Up Museum, which will be part of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 when it opens in Atlanta on April 20 and 21, 2013. In a twist of historical fate, the show will be held in an old CompUSA store, with 6,000 feet of the CompUSA regional corporate offices being used for the Apple Pop-Up museum. '[Mimms] and his staff are literally building a museum within the separate rooms,' Greelish told Ars."

Comments

Pay to look at Apple stuff?

[tumutbound]

Historical or not, who is going to pay $15 to look at a bunch on old Apple computers?

Re:Pay to look at Apple stuff?

[sixminuteabs]

I can start with all of the jackasses who have the stickers on their rear windshield. After that, the dumbasses who wait in line for more than 24 hours to get the iphone 4s. Add anyone ever stupid enough to pay $100 for MobileMe service. This guy is going to make a fortune.

Re:Pay to look at Apple stuff?

[jedidiah]

It's 2013. Standing in line for days for some consumer product that you can have shipped to your door the moment it's available is just retarded. It's like some kind of throwback to the 70s.

It's pretty much the opposite of the trendiness that Apple is trying to sell.

popup?

[anagama]

What the hell is a popup museum. It could have been explained in the summary.

What's with the veneration

[wiredlogic]

Jobs had a massive personality disorder and treated most people like shit. He made it to the top because we have a society that rewards narcissists. For this he deserves to have the history books rewritten to paint him as a saint?

Re:Can it bring jobs back to ex-CompUSA employees?

[damn_registrars]

At lot of people worked in those buildings and got the shaft when the company collapsed under the weight of its own corporate stupidity. We shouldn't be celebrating someone making use of the buildings if they aren't doing anything to help the retail slaves find work.

A corporation is the sum of its employees... and their failure wasn't just executive stupidity.

I worked at CompUSA for quite some time back when they were doing well as a company (before they were bought out by Carlos Slim). I can tell you that the hands of myself and other retail slaves in that company were shackled by stupidity from middle and upper management (to be fair, our store managers were actually quite good but they were also restrained by cluelessness from district and corporate). The employees worked hard and still faced the consequences of those up above who seldom - if ever - entered actual stores. To make matters worse, one year after posting the 3rd or 4th consecutive year with record numbers for our region, our managers asked their superiors where their annual bonuses were for that year - they were told "you get to keep your jobs".

So in the case of CompUSA, the failure of the chain belongs to the executives. They restrained the people who were doing actual work and took the whole damned thing down in doing so.